Low-Cost Duress Solution For Integriti Access Control System.
Low-Cost Duress Solution For Integriti – We’re interested in a reliable low-cost duress system staff in our showroom, warehouse and carpark can carry around with them when on site. We’ve read about some app-based solutions but are concerned that the process of opening a smart phone, possibly in the dark, then opening an app in a high-risk situation will take too long. The building is secured by an Inner Range Integriti system.
A: Your solution is the Inovonics EchoStream RF Expander, which integrates directly with Inner Range Integriti. Conveniently, EchoStream supports the entire Inovonics wireless range – sensors, as well as a laundry list of duress button options. It’s solid wireless, Inovonics.
Not unexpectedly, Inovonics says that wireless range varies depending on building construction. There’s nothing like a couple of layers of reo to create a Farraday shield right where installers don’t want one.
Regardless, EchoStream offers a potential range of around 4500 square metres per repeater – to get a sense of scale, a soccer pitch is around 6500 square metres in area – that suggests 4500 is sufficient coverage for larger industrial units, even with attenuation.
The broader specification of this expander is solid, too. It links into any convenient branch of an RS-485 bus and supports 32 devices, while every duress transmitter reports via every expander, enhancing performance with redundant comms paths.
The unit is quite compact – around the size of a older style keypad – and features good stuff like transmitter low battery, poll fail, RF jamming, cabinet tamper, low voltage, LAN failure and module low battery – this is excellent system governance.
We could drone on a bit more but it’s probably better to contact local Inner Range distributor Wesco Anixter in Australia and New Zealand (formerly CSD and Atlas Gentech) and ask them for more info.
We figure as an SME end user you’re bouncing off SEN because you don’t have an installer contact for the existing system – the Wesco people can advise on that, too.
You can read more about Wesco Anixter’s Inovonics gear in Australia here – the NZ supplier is here – there’s more SEN news here.
“Low-Cost Duress Solution For Integriti Access Control System.”
